The 2016 Soul Train Music Awards was held at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 6, 2016. The ceremony, hosted by Erykah Badu for the second year in a row, honored artists in 12 different categories.

In this brand new featurette for Fox Searchlight Picture’s forthcoming The Birth Nation, we learn more about the incredible cast charged with bringing the true story of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion to the big screen.

The annual Alfred Fagon Awards took place at Dorfman, National Theatre recently. Michael Buffong, Artistic Director of Talawa Theatre Company presented the award and cheque for £6,000 to Lorna French, winner of this year’s Best New Play of the Year, supported by The Peggy Ramsay Foundation.

Black Britain on Film charts changing attitudes and hidden histories spanning more than a century.
Black Britain on Film complements the BFI’s new blockbuster season BLACK STAR and is available to view on the BFI’s VOD platform, BFI Player, mostly for free.

As part of Black Star, the BFI Southbank is currently home to the Separate Cinema Exhibition; this exhibition displays film posters drawn from the most extensive private holdings of African-American film memorabilia in the world.